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RE: Rapper DMX Sentenced To A Year In Prison For Tax Fraud - Songs Played In Court As Defense
so copyrights don't benefit artists? patents don't benefit inventors?
so copyrights don't benefit artists? patents don't benefit inventors?
Patents and copyrights benefit some at the expense of others, because intellectual property laws necessarily mean violating the real property rights of others. And the biggest beneficiaries of these laws are not the artists or designers.
Chexk out the work of Stephan Kinsella in Against Intellectual Property for a detailed analysis of the subject.
intellectual property laws necessarily mean violating the real property rights of others?
By claiming ownership of an idea, you claim the right to harm them if they use their own property to implement the idea. But ideas can't be owned when they are in someone else's mind, and you do not have the right to threaten someone else for using their own property to turn ideas into something real.
if you improve an invention in any significant way then you can get a patent, something in someone's mind is useless if they are not activily persuing developing it. We have all seen something and said "I thought of that" but we didn't risk any of our capital or spend any of our time to pursue or develop it, or even bother to protect it. Thus it is not a right to harm anyone, it is a right to defend one's property.
You're still assuming the patent system has merit. It does not.
Without it we would all be shitting in wooden buckets in front of open hearths.
Nope. Not at all. IP laws interfere with technological progress. Their purpose is to enrich lawyers and megacorporations, not to protect the "little guy." In contrast to the stagnation we see in most of the corporate world, including the music industry, consider the difference in industries that do not have IP protections.
That thumbnail looks too much like a TED type talk for me to click on it. which industries do not have IP protection?